Eating Your Own Dog Food - The Secret Sauce for Better Product Development
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Sonar uses its own code-quality tool to block merges until issues are fixed, forcing developers to address maintainability and reliability warnings before merging to main. Changes deploy continuously to a dedicated dogfooding instance that the team treats as production, so outages become incidents with postmortems rather than quick patches. This uncovers bugs earlier than customers do, though dogfooding alone can’t cover all cases for 7 million users, so feedback funnels into an internal forum and actionable tickets.
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